The Storage Industry Awards (The 'Storries')

Although the event didn't start until 7.30 there were 80 of the Storage Industries finest in the Hotel Russell's bar watching the emergence of a certain Mr Rooney and a thumping 3-0 win to England.

That set the evening up nicely, 250 people enjoying the champagne reception with a smile on their face. The evening started in earnest when desert was served and Dave Lee (MBE) our comedian for the evening, did a 30 minute stand up set. Although close to the bone, a very funny man and one that laughs at himself!

Our guest of honour, George Cohen (MBE) took centre stage with the Storage Awards host, Stuart Leigh and George not only recounted what it was like winning the world cup, he also presented the 16 awards.

Once the awards were finished, the entertainment turned to music with Something Wicked playing a string of classics ranging from James Brown to The Jacksons, making way only for our Dj for the evening who played in to the early hours of the morning.

A good night was had by all, especially our winners, who are listed below. Well done to them and we look forward to welcoming you to the 2005 Storage Awards, where once again, the readers of Storage Magazine, will reward outstanding products and services.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors Syncsort, Computing and Techworld for their support.

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An announcement on the 2005 Storries will appear here soon.

The Winners

Please click here to download the Storage Award winners 2004 presentation file (Microsoft Powerpoint file)

Backup Software Product of the Year 2004
Winner: Computer Associates - BrightStor ARCserve R.11
Runner Up: Bakbone - NetVault v7.1
Other Companies Nominated: Legato, Dantz, HP, Atempo
Backup Hardware Product of the Year 2004
Winner: Quantum - DX100
Runner Up: StorageTek - Bladestor B220
Other Companies Nominated: Fujitsu Siemens, STORserver, Breece Hill, Nexsan
Archiving Software Product of the Year 2004
Winner: Legato - DiskXtender
Runner Up: KVS - Enterprisevault
Other Companies Nominated: Xendata, IXOS, K-PAR, ZANTAZ
SAN Management New Product of the Year 2004
Winner: Hatachi Data Systems - True Copy
Runner Up: Datacore - SAN symphony 5.2.2
Other Companies Nominated: Legato, IBM, Computer Associates, CISCO
SAN Product of the Year 2004
Winner: Datacore - SAN Melody 1.4
Runner Up: Softek Storage Solutions - Storage Manager
Other Companies Nominated: Falconstor, Dot Hill, McData, Qlogic
Tape Drive Technology Product of the Year 2004
Winner: Sony - SAIT
Runner Up: Quantum - SDLT600
Other Companies Nominated: HP, Exabyte, Certance, Tanberg
Automated Tape Technology Product of the Year 2004
Winner: ADIC - i2000
Runner Up: Spectra Logic - T950
Other Companies Nominated: Quantum, Overland, Qualstar, Exabyte
Archiving Hardware Product of the Year 2004
Winner: EMC - Centera
Runner Up: Sony - SAIT WORM
Other Companies Nominated: Plasmon, Storagetek, Sony
Disk Technology Product of the Year 2004
Winner: Nexsan - ATABeast
Runner Up: Storagetek - Bladestor
Other Companies Nominated: Emc, HDS, Network Appliance, HP
Storage Reseller of the Year
Winner: NCE
Runner Up: Redstor
Other Companies Nominated: Kingswell, TecTrade, Solid State Solutions, Source Consulting
Storage Distributor of the Year
Winner: CMS Peripherals
Runner Up: Headway
Other Companies Nominated: Hammer Distribution, Ideal Hardware / Bell Micro, In Technology, Zycko
Storage Service Company of the Year
Winner: Kodak
Runner Up: NCE
Other Companies Nominated: Anacomp, JCOM, Harrier Zeuros, Matrix (Computers) Ltd
Storage Solution of the year
Winner: Syndesys
Runner Up: Softek Storage Solutions
Other Companies Nominated: Sagitta, HP
Publishers award for excellence
Winner: Breece Hill
Runner Up: Sony
Other Companies Nominated: Plasmon, Symantec, Sunbelt Software, Q-Logic
Storage Security Excellence Award
Winner: Neoscale
Other Companies Nominated: Digital Interactive Solutions, Decru
Storage Company of the Year
Winner: StorageTek
Runner Up: Veritas / Softek Storage Solutions
Other Companies Nominated: EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, ADIC, Legato, Computer Associates, Sony, Nexsan, Quantum, HP